muddlement

I forget. edward.   You can't forget. mr. voysey.   Well . . pretty bad. edward.   Do you know how it was my grandfather began to— mr. voysey.   Muddlement, muddlement!

The doctrine compels him to no such muddlement.

Much of the muddlement of U.S. farm policies, argues Higbee, results from statistical fallacies.

What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward."

In the '20s a group of Oxford poets, sparked by W. H. Auden, and including MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis, staged a revolt against current English linguistic muddlement.